AMERICAN ROUTES
San Antonio Sounds San Antonio Sounds September 20th, 2023 (Hour 1)
San Antonio Sounds

The great Texas river city is a mix of Mexican, German, Anglo and African American cultures, among others. Home to the Texas Conjunto Festival and the International Accordion Festival, San Antonio is best known for Tex-Mex or Tejano music played by squeeze box masters like Flaco Jimenez, Narciso Martinez and Mingo Saldivar among many. We’ll speak with Flaco, who in collaborations with Doug Sahm, Ry Cooder, and Los Super Seven, has carried the music worldwide. “Chicano brown-eyed soul” performers like Sunny and the Sunliners and other groups describe music that connected New Orleans and Louisiana Swamp Pop with San Antonio and East Los Angeles. We’ll also talk with Vox organ legend Augie Meyers who worked in the high hippie era with Doug Sahm as part of the Sir Douglas Quintet and later in the Texas Tornadoes. The conversation comes full circle with Max Baca, the leader and bajo sexto player of Los Texmaniacs who was influenced by both Flaco and Doug Sahm. The Grammy-winning family band sticks with tradition, but finds ways to include country, blues and rock. Plus music from Sam the Sham, Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys, Freddy Fender and Willie Nelson. ¡Vamos!

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DR JOHN / PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND

March 16th, 2005

Sit down and visit with the Crescent City piano professor and hoodoo rock and roller Dr. John as he recalls his early days as a studio guitarist in New Orleans and the West Coast birth of the Night Tripper. And tag along as we drop by the place where time stands still, but the music jumps, Preservation Hall. Meet musicians, fans and the family that started it all.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Mess Around Dr. John
    Gumbo, Atco
  • Junko Partner Dr. John
    Gumbo, Atco
  • INTERVIEW: Dr. John

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  • Ball the Wall Professor Longhair
    New Orleans Piano, Atlantic
  • Instrumental: Memories of Professor Longhair Dr. John
    Dr. John Plays Mac Rebennack, Clean Cuts
  • INTERVIEW: Dr. John
  • Ain’t It a Shame Fats Domino
    Out of New Orleans, Bear Family
  • INTERVIEW: Dr. John
  • Tell Me How Do You Feel James Booker
    New Orleans Piano Wizard: Live, Rounder
  • INTERVIEW: Dr. John
  • Bopsody In Blues Edgar Blanchard and the Gondoliers
    Troubles, Troubles: New Orleans Blues, Rounder
  • Don't You Just Know It Huey 'Piano' Smith
    Having a Good Time with Huey ‘Piano’ Smith & His Clowns, Westside
  • INTERVIEW: Dr. John
  • Huey Piano Smith Medley Dr. John
    Gumbo, Atco
  • SEGMENT: Harold Battiste
  • INTERVIEW: Dr. John
  • I Been Hoodooed Dr. John
    In the Right Place, Atco
  • Instrumental: Walkin' Home Donald Harrison w/Dr. John
    Indian Blues, Candid
  • INTERVIEW: Dr. John
  • In the Right Place Dr. John
    In the Right Place, Atco
  • INTERVIEW: Dr. John
  • INTERVIEW: Dr. John
  • New Orleans Music Rebirth Brass Band
    Hot Venom, Mardi Gras
  • INTERVIEW: Dr. John
  • Goin’ Back to New Orleans Dr. John
    Goin’ Back to New Orleans, Warner Bros.
  • INTERVIEW: Dr. John
  • When the Saints Go Marching In Dr. John with Mavis Staples
    N’Awlinz’: Dis, Dat or D’Udda, Blue Note

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Little Liza Jane Preservation Hall Band
    Shake that Thing, Preservation Hall
  • Saturday Night Fish Fry Pearl Bailey and ‘Moms’ Mabley
    Stars of the Apollo, Columbia
  • Stay All Night Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
    For the Last Time, United Artists
  • It Don’t Mean a Thing The Elmer Snowden Quartet featuring Cliff Jackson
    Harlem Banjo!, Riverside
  • Lady Be Good Martin, Bogan & Armstrong
    The Barnyard Dance, Rounder
  • Lady, Be Good! Jones-Smith, Inc. (Count Basie Quintet)
    I Got Rhythm: The Music of George Gerswhin, Smithsonian
  • Instrumental: Jumpin’ at the Woodside Merrill Moore
    Boogie My Blues Away, Bear Family
  • INTERVIEW: Preservation Hall Jazz Band, with Sandy Jaffe & Ben Jaffe

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  • Instrumental: Tom Cat Blues Wynton Marsalis
    Mr. Jelly Lord: Standard Time Vol. 6, Columbia
  • Blues for New Orleans Duke Ellington
    New Orleans Suite, Atlantic
  • Louisiana Percy Mayfield
    Poet of the Blues, Specialty
  • Second Line on Monday Chuck Carbo
    Life’s Ups and Downs, 504
  • Streets of Glory Basil Gabbidon
    Theo Beckford - Trench Town Ska, Jamaican Gold
  • Sunny Side of the Street Nellie Lutcher
    Nellie Lutcher and Her Rhythm, Bear Family
  • My Blue Heaven Jerry Lee Lewis
    Classic Jerry Lee Lewis, Bear Family
  • End Bed: High Society Louis Armstrong
    The Complete RCA Victor Recordings, BMG

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